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- Use advanced roles to focus on specialized work in larger projects
- As your project gets larger, it's important to allocate people into more specialized roles. These specialized roles help to make sure that important aspects of the project success have more focus. Understanding who is filling the standard roles of clients, project manager, sponsor, and team members is generally...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, large project, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Project Manager, Role, Librarian, Steering Committee, Financial Planning, Team Management, Financial Services, Security, Management, Finance
- Technical articles 2006-09-19
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- Use a responsibility matrix to show who does what in your projects
- If many people have a hand in the creation of a project, you should use a Responsibility Matrix to keep track of them. In a large project, there may be many people who have some role in the completion of project deliverables. Sometimes this is pretty straightforward,...
- Tags: C/C++, Tom Mochal, deliverable, C, Project Management Newsletter, Matrix, Team Management, Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Technical articles 2006-02-21
- Audit Committee Financial Experts
- On January 23, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission published final rules requiring each public company board of directors to make a determination as to whether the company has an "audit committee financial expert" serving on its audit committee.
- Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., audit committee, audit, financial, board
- White papers 2003-05-02
- Super Bowl Host Committee Scores Touchdown With New IT Infrastructure
- The Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee ensures that Super Bowl host city Glendale, Arizona, meets National Football League NFL contractual commitments. Committee members, who travel often and use e-mail to share information, needed a centralized IT infrastructure with better remote access. The committee implemented a solution based on Windows Small...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Super Bowl, Information Technology, Arizona, Remote Access, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- Case studies
- Sun Case Study: Zhejiang University
- The Union Steering Committee of the schools, which formed the new Zheijang University decided that the first priority, following the successful amalgamation, would be to develop a campus-wide computer network CWCN. The servers were the first priority of the CWCN construction. The four former universities reached an agreement to choose...
- Tags: Zhejiang University, Sun Microsystems Inc., Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Clarify project roles with this simple responsibility matrix
- In a large project, you may have many people with some degree of responsibility for completing certain deliverables. It might be just one person writing a document and one person approving it. But it's often more complicated than that, with several people having a hand in the creation and others...
- Tags: Person, Clarify, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Tools & templates 2006-06-08
- mySAP Customer Relationship Management: Helping Customers Order Products
- In December 2002, the merger between Plansee TIZIT AG (from Reutte/Tirol) and Cerametal (from Mamer/Luxembourg) led to the formation of CERATIZIT GmbH, one of the world's biggest hard-metal suppliers. The integration of the online store with the company's SAP R/3 back-end system enabled users to easily perform availability checks and...
- Tags: mySAP, SAP AG, mySAP CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Team Management, Software, Management
- Case studies
- A Case Study of Social and Corporate Responsibility in Bridging the Digital Divide
- Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT. Irish policy makers see education as the solution to this problem. However, providing institutional support for...
- Tags: Education, Corporate Responsibility, Information Technology, Digital Divide, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- Case studies
- Use a Communication Plan for your larger, complex projects
- Here is the process for creating creative and proactive Communication Plan. In a large project, all communication should take place in the context of an overall communications strategy and plan. Status meetings and status reporting are required, just as for all projects. In addition, there are ...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, communication option, project team, Communication Plan, communication need, Project Management Newsletter, Communication, Stakeholder, Benefits, Management, Human Resources
- Technical articles 2006-11-20
- How to Use the restrict Qualifier in C
- The C89 standards committee added two type qualifiers to C, const and volatile. The C99 committee added a third type qualifier with restrict. Individually, and in combination, these type qualifiers determine the assumptions a compiler makes when it accesses an object through an lvalue. The definition of an lvalue is...
- Tags: Compiler, C, Committee, C/C++, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Project management screw-up #5: Lacking the right sponsorship
- For any project to succeed, it's crucial to get an appropriate level of sponsorship. This sample chapter from The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass looks at characteristics of the ideal sponsor, why you might need a stakeholder steering committee,...
- Tags: FT Press, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Book chapters 2008-05-13
- SumTotal System Case Study: TRW Automotive
- TRW Automotive is the leader in automotive safety, producing advanced active systems in braking, steering and suspension and sophisticated occupant safety systems for inflatable restraints, seat belts and steering wheels. TRW's classroom training, mostly regulatory, was taking too much time and effort. At their pilot site, hundreds of people needed...
- Tags: TRW, TRW Automotive, E-learning, Workforce Management, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management
- Case studies
- Ready to Win New Customers: Copenhagen Energy's Head Start in a Deregulated Market Thanks to mySAP CRM
- Copenhagen Energy is the second largest provider of utility services in Denmark. Pending the deregulation of the Danish electricity market Copenhagen Energy faced the challenge of retaining their current customer base and winning new customers. In order to meet these challenges, the decision was made to implement mySAP CRM. The...
- Tags: mySAP, Capgemini, mySAP CRM, CRM, Copenhagen Energy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- U.S. Counties Improve Collaboration and Governance With Knowledge-Sharing Portals
- The National Association of Counties NACo wanted to help county governments share knowledge and collaborate with each other. It piloted two Web-based portals using Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. One portal, for the sharing of software applications, was developed by Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Kanalytics and involved NACo joining...
- Tags: Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., NACo, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies
- How financial analysis can impact project initiation
- This week's Project Management newsletter explains how financial analysis can help ensure a project meets its stated value goals. What methods does your organization use to validate the financial success of candidate projects? If you haven't subscribed to our free Project Management newsletter, sign up today! Click this link to...
- Tags: business case, financial, financial analysis, initiation, it management, Newsletter Editor
- Discussion threads 2005-02-15
- Assessing the Budget Proposal Put Forward by the Senate Budget Committee
- This paper examines the budget proposal adopted by the Senate Budget Committee on March 10, 2005. While the proposal calls for substantial reductions in many domestic programs, it would increase rather than reduce the deficit over time, largely due to its emphasis on further tax cuts. Funding for "domestic discretionary"...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Proposal, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-03-14
- Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services
- This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of bandwidth profiles for Ethernet services, based on the work of the Metro Ethernet Forum MEF Technical Committee. The paper is intended to help buyers, users, providers of Ethernet services, and equipment and semiconductor vendors understand the various types, characteristics and usage of...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Metro Ethernet, Metro Ethernet Forum, Ethernet, Networking
- White papers 2004-11-04
- HP Consulting Helps TCU Wire Campus While Beating Cost Benchmarks
- Texas Christian University TCU made a decision to standardize its networked hardware and software environment. While standardization holds the promise of future cost reductions, migration from legacy hardware inevitably incurs costs. For this reason, the technology committee put great care into choosing which platform would replace its old infrastructure. The...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Portals, Servers, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies
- The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: Flexibility and the Competitive Advantage
- Avaya was one of a handful of providers as Official Convergence Communication Provider of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. The challenge was to provide highly flexible, easy to deploy and manage converged communications for the German Football Local Organising Committee LOC - one of the driving forces behind the...
- Tags: Germany, Competitive Advantage, FIFA, Avaya Inc., World Cup, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Case Study - An Event Risk Management Plan - Triathlon Race
- Zoom Promotions, a triathlon promotions company, is planning a triathlon race on the Gold Coast over the holiday period. The race will host some of the best triathletes from both Australia and around the world competing for prize money and competition points in a summer type carnival. The organizing committee...
- Tags: Risk Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management
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